Installing CNC Single VM on Proxmox Virtual Environment
This is a step by step Guide to deploy CNC Single VM (SVM in short) on Proxmox Virtual Environment with all steps
News and Announcements
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NSO 6.7 is finally here!This significant long-lived release empowers your network automation strategy with seamless AI integration via the new Adaptive MCP Server. It also enhances your operations with Southbound Datastore Subscriptions and reduced maintenance windows through Optimistic Upgrade. Experience the future of intent-based orchestration today.
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Blog Articles
Using LLMs to build a Crosswork Planning MCP server
Crosswork Planning predicts the impact of network changes, traffic growth, new services, and potential failures. Operators usually perform these tasks in the Design application, which provides an inte...
Using LLMs for Crosswork Planning script prototyping
Crosswork Planning provides comprehensive capabilities for predicting the impact of network changes, traffic growth, new services and potential failures. It leverages traffic data to provide capacity ...
IPv6 Zero-Touch Provisioning with Cisco NSO and NetBox
Plug in a new switch and let it configure itself. Here is a hands-on IPv6 design where Cisco NSO does the real work and NetBox is the source of truth, with diagrams, code, and a small demo repo to try
From Static to Autonomous: The Evolution of Network Planning
Explore the evolution from traditional network planning to agentic workflows. Learn how Cisco Crosswork Planning, APIs, MCP, and Crosswork AI can work together—and see a practical CP Agent prototype e...
A Guide to Onboarding Devices into Cisco Crosswork Network Controller
Learn how to get started with Cisco CNC. This guide you will walk you through the first steps you need to accomplish in order to onboard your network devices to Cisco Crosswork Network Controller and ...
Cisco Crosswork AI and CNC: From Network Truth to Trusted Action
Crosswork Network Controller brings the operational truth: inventory, topology, events, device state, security signals, and workflow control. Crosswork AI adds the agentic reasoning layer that can con...
Real-world Benefits of Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC)
Accelerating the Journey to Autonomous Networks with Cisco Crosswork Network ControllerAs Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and Enterprises strive for full autonomy, they face a common challenge...
Cisco Crosswork Network Controller for AI-Ready Multi-Vendor Networks
Cisco Crosswork Network Controller can be extended for multi-vendor environments, but the right path depends on the operational outcome. This post provides a customer-facing decision framework for cho...
Release Announcement – Introducing NSO 6.7
NSO 6.7 is finally here! This significant long-lived release empowers your network automation strategy with seamless AI integration via the new Adaptive MCP Server. It also enhances your operations wi...
From Copilot to MCP: Automating Crosswork Workflow Manager with AI
In an earlier post from almost two years ago I used GitHub Copilot for CWM and NSO—but models were slow and everything moved through copy-paste. Here I describe what changed: Python programs that auth...
Resolve "Device Side-Effect" with "commit confirm-network-state"
The "commit confirm-network-state" workflow effectively addresses device “side effects” on platforms like ALU and IOS XR where configuration can be generated because of the prior changes. At the same ...
Optimizing Sync‑From with "commit confirm-network-state" in NSO 6.5
During initial onboarding, a sync-from can be time-consuming. Using "commit confirm-network-state" offers a way to onboard devices without performing a full sync-from.
Building Effective Pre‑Production Test for NSO
Introduce best practices to construct an NSO Pre-production test case with the help of Lux, Playwright, and scenario-based Southbound Netconf/CLI Device Simulator to detect issues before moving to pro...
NSO Product Quality Survey 2026
NSO product quality remains the top priority for NSO BU. We are interested in hearing your feedback to drive meaningful improvements.
